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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 2003 federal law,
making it a crime to promote or present material considered as child
pornography.
The court voted 7 to 2 that a federal appeals court was wrong
to find the law ambiguous. The court rejected the argument that one part of the
law illegally infringed on free-speech, and that documentarians, movie
reviewers or grandparents could be the victims of the law’s standards.
Opponents of the law said that the 2003 legislation was
broadly written, so that it could be applied to much appreciated movies such as
“Lolita,” “Traffic,”...
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Despite huge efforts made by crews of the Florida Firefighters, a blaze that started Wednesday scorched nearly 33,000 acres of Everglades National Park on Sunday. This has been the latest in a series of wildfires that burned across regions of Florida this month. Authorities said firefighters managed to contain about 20 percent of the blaze. The fire crews are currently working to restrict the fire to the park while protecting the Cape Sable seaside sparrow, a species of bird which is federally protected. The National Weather Service issued a dense smoke advisory as the wildfires cast a...
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The Pentagon
announced on Monday that more troops will be sent to Iraq. The number surpasses
40,000 troops, including 25,000 active duty Army soldiers. They will head to
Iraq at the beginning of this fall to replace the troops that are heading home
at the end of the year, reported The Associated Press.
The troops
will deploy for only 12 months instead of 15 months because of the new Pentagon
policy. The soldiers who have to go this fall returned from Iraq last year,
which means they managed to rest just one year. Nearly 15 brigades are expected
to be on the warfront at the end of...
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The New York State Governor David Paterson, who recently became the state’s first black governor after Elliot Spitzer had left the job vacant, is in hospital. The Democratic Party member checked himself into a Manhattan hospital on Tuesday due to symptoms of a migraine headache. The results of preliminary tests performed on Gov. Paterson turned out normal, according to the governor's office. The 54-year-old is now resting before undergoing further tests today at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Although he is known as an athletic person – he plays basketball for recreation and also ran...
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U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy is still in hospital in Boston, as doctors tried to determine the cause of his seizure, CNN reports. According to medical officials, Kennedy’s condition was serious, but the 76-year-old Democrat is currently out of any “immediate danger.” After several tests on Saturday, it appears he did not suffer a stroke. Kennedy was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital on Saturday morning. compound. A long time friend of Kennedy, Democratic Senator for Connecticut Chris Dodd, said he got encouraging news when he spoke with Kennedy’s relatives on Saturday. ”I think the...
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Four officers will be fired, other four disciplined and a
supervising sergeant demoted in a case...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 2003 federal law,
making it a crime to promote or...
A 7-year-old boy was mauled to death by two pit bulls. The child was playing outside his home in...
The Pentagon
announced on Monday that more troops will be sent to Iraq. The number...
The battle for the Democratic Party nomination is “nowhere near over” as the two presidential...
This weekend,
in Cranston, a child’s birthday party turned out really bad as two neighbors
got...
Two friends, Jordan Houghton, 17, and Maxwell Zeigler, 20, were
killed in a car accident early...
Alan Kaname Hamai, 22, was found dead Saturday morning on
the front yard of his residence. He was...
It seems people never learn. After all these accidents
caused by driving under the influence of...
Federal judges will begin hearings today in the case of the parents of the children taken under...
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